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China's Little Red Book: Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-tung

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Digital illustration shows a person holding out a red book with Chinese characters on the cover. Text reads, “China’s Little Red Book: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung. 1964.”

There are a handful of books that have influenced hundreds of millions of people’s lives over the decades, centuries, and millennium of human existence. The "Little Red Book" is one of those books. It is a book of statements from speeches and writings by Mao Tse-tung, the former Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. It was published from 1964 to about 1976 and widely distributed during the Cultural Revolution.

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